The universal passion
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Type of record: Book
Title: The universal passion
Classmark: BC Lt d/YOU
Creator(s): Young, Edward (1683-1765)
Additional creator(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) (Other)
Related people: Swift, Jonathan
Publication city: London [i.e. Edinburgh]
Date(s): 1725-1728
Language: English
Size and medium: 114,[1], [123]-185 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/273453
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991018445019705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
A pirated edition.
In verse.
Signatures: A-O⁴ P1 Q-Z⁴.
Also published with title: Love of fame, the universal passion.
Comprises: "The universal passion, Satire 1-4, Satire the last" (pp.3-80); "Cadenus and Vanessa" (pp.[81]-114); "The universal passion, Satire 6-7 (pp.[123]-185).
Individual title-pages dated 1728 ("Satire 2,7"), 1725 ("Satire 3-4), 1726 ("Satire the last", "Cadenus and Vanessa"), 1727 ("Satire 6").
According to article by May in "Studies in bibliography", 1983, this item was published between 1725-27.
In the B.M. copy (defective, wanting all except "Cadenus and Vanessa") Swift's poem is followed by a list of books (1p., verso blank) "Just published and sold by Allan Ramsay". From this it appears that "Cadenus and Vanessa", no.8 on the list, was also issued separately. See Teerink 661.
Cadenus and Vanessa. A poem [by Jonathan Swift]: p. [82]-114.
Additional description
Bound with 2 other publications in volume lettered Satires . Volume contents: 1. Young, E: The universal passion , [c.1729?]. -- 2. Pope, A: The dunciad , 1728. -- 3. Bramston, J: The art of politicks , 1729. All of these are Edinburgh piracies
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